RFID print and ship: There's more than one way to get an RFID tag on a carton. And they're all being tried right now

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On the surface, printing and applying an RFID tag seems like it ought to be easy. The process, after all, utilizes printers and applicators similar to those that apply bar codes by the millions every day/And who gives bar code labeling a second thought? But as a new world of product identification shifts into a higher gear this month at Wal-Mart and elsewhere, both end users and equipment suppliers are finding that there's more to RFID labels than meets the eye. "This is a very young marketplace," says Mark Brown, vice president of business development and marketing for Lowry Computer Products (800-733-0210, www. lowrycomputer.com).